Thursday, May 24, 2012

Asians are the most highly educated group of Americans, with more than half with a bachelor's degrees or higher, the Census Bureau has reported

Among groups of Asian Americans 25 and older, 74% of Taiwanese and 71% of Indians had at least a bachelor's degree, the agency said as part of its release of American Community Survey data on hundreds of racial, tribal and Hispanic groups. The comparable figure for the U.S. population overall is 28%. Several Southeast Asian groups fell behind the overall U.S. rate for a bachelor's degree or higher. They included Vietnamese at 26%, Cambodian and Hmong at about 14% and Laotian at 12%. Among all groups surveyed, Salvadorans had the lowest percentage with a bachelor's degree or higher, at 8%.

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